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Copyright: Mustafa YAPICI (milas) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2162 W: 385 N: 2273] (24634)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08-02
Categories: Architecture
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-09-01 8:54
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Points: 28
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Canakkale Battles (The Gallipoli Campaign)

1915
Feb. to March Naval attempts to force the Straits
May to July Attempts to expand beachheads in Helles and Anzac; arrival of reinforcement
Sept. to Nov. Static trench warfare with no major attacks by either side
December Evacuation of Anzac and Suvla Bay positions
January 1916 Evacuation of Helles, end of campaign

"Damn the Dardanelles!
They will be our grave."

(Admiral Fisher in letter to Churchill-April 5, 1915)

The Turkish Straits have possessed an enormous strategic importance as a result of the policies adopted by powers in their attempt to reach the high seas and warmer climates or to establish sovereignty over the Middle East.

The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was an Allied attempt to knock Ottoman Turkey out of World War I and reopen a supply route to Russia. The initial plan, proposed by British Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, called for an Allied fleet mostly British to force the Dardanelles Strait and then to steam to Constantinople to dictate peace terms. They began the campaign convinced that the Dardanelles would fall in one month.

The Allied fleet began bombarding the Turkish batteries at the entrance to the strait on November 3, 1914. This bombardment continued intermittently until March 12, 1916.

To be able to pass through the strait, it was understood that the lands of Canakkale had to be captured as well. Within this perspective, preparations started on February 16. The principal fortifications were attacked on March 18. Sixteen battleships provided the principal firepower. Three battleships were sunk by an undetected minefield and three others were disabled. The Turks had nearly expended their ammunition, many of their batteries had been destroyed and their fire-control communications were out of action. The Allies, however, did not know this. The attack was called off and ships were withdrawn from the strait.

In the meantime, the Allies had hastily assembled a force of 78,000 men and dispatched it from England and Egypt to Gallipoli. As his flotilla gathered near the peninsula, however, the commanding general, Ian Hamilton, discovered that guns and ammunition had been loaded on separate ships. The transports had to steam to Egypt to be properly loaded for combat. The Turks, now alerted to the Allied plan, used the resulting month's delay to improve their defenses. Some 60,000 Turkish troops, under the German general Otto Liman von Sanders, awaited the Allies.

On April 25, British troops landed at Seddulbahir. ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) troops (at Ariburnu) waded ashore at what they thought was Kabatepe, but it was not. Their boats had drifted a mile north during the night and they landed instead at the bottom of the treacherous ridge. Many soldiers were killed or drowned. A few groups managed to scale the ridge up to Conkbayiri where Mustafa Kemal successfully commanded.

"I do not order you to attack,
I order you to die."

"...It was the last gasp of the battle. On both sides the men had been fighting for three days without sleep and with very little water and food. The trenches behind them were choked with the dead and wounded. The end of the nightmare became more important than the idea of victory. Kemal called out a few words of encouragement to his men as he crawled along.

'Don't hurry. Let me go first. Wait until you see me raise my whip and then all rush forward together.'

He stood up between the opposing trenches. A bullet smashed his pocket watch but he raised his whip and walked towards the British line. Four hours later not an Allied soldier remained on Sari Bayir...."

Simultaneously, on the Asiatic side of the strait at Kumkale, one French division made a diversionary landing and on the neck of the peninsula, a naval force attempted to distract the Turks. The Allied troops were soon pinned down in several unconnected beachheads, stopped by a combination of Turkish defenses and British mismanagement. Losses were high. The Turks ringed the tiny beachheads with entrenchments and the British and Anzac troops soon found themselves involved in trench warfare.

After three months of bitter fighting, Hamilton attempted a second assault on the western side of the peninsula. This assault lacked adequate naval gunfire support; it failed to take any of its major objectives and resulted in heavy casualties. Hamilton was relieved on October 15 and by December 10 his replacement had evacuated the bulk of the troops and supplies. The remaining 35,000 men were withdrawn without the Turks realizing it on January 8-9, 1916. By contrast with the operation as a whole, the withdrawal was a masterpiece of planning and organization, with no loss of life. Estimates of Allied casualties for the entire campaign are about 252,000, with the Turks suffering almost as many casualties an estimated 251,000.

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives. You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours.

You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

Above is the letter Ataturk wrote to the Australian people in 1934 which forms proof of his famous motto: "Peace at home, peace abroad".
Central Anatolia
Heroic verses inscribed on a hillside in the Dardanelles, Canakkale

Animal husbandry Sheep
History It was founded in the Ottoman Period and continues through the Turkish Republic

The name of the city comes from the shape of the fortress which was built by Sultan Mehmet II in 1452. It has a bowl shape and canak in Turkish is "bowl" and kale is "fort".

Although it is a new city it played an important role during the Canakkale Battles. From the ferryboat on the way to Canakkale, it is possible to see a big inscription on the hillside N of Kilitbahir:

"Dur yolcu! (Stop passerby!)
This soil you thus tread unawares
Is where an age sank.
Bow and listen,
This quiet mound is where the heart of a nation throbs."
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Merhaba Mustafa Bey,
Çanakkale Şehitleri Anıtını mükemmel bir açıdan pozalmışsınız.Hele tavandaki Türk Bayrağı muhteşem görünüyor.Eline sağlık Üstad!
İzninizle bende yapının tarihçesi ve boyutları hakkında küçük bir not ekliyorum.
Çanakkale Şehitleri Anıtı, Çanakkale il sınırları içindeki Gelibolu Yarımadası'nda, Çanakkale Boğazı'nın ucunda Morto Koyu önündeki Hisarlık Tepe üzerinde yer alan anıt.

1915 yılında 1. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Çanakkale Savaşları'nda şehit olan 253.000 Türk askerin anısına yaptırıldı.


TARİHÇE
Yapımına 1952 yılında karar verilen ve temeli 19 Nisan 1954 tarihinde atılan yapının inşası 6,5 yılda tamamlandı. Anıt için 1944 yılında yapılan yarışmayı kerim cerit , sultan cerit ve Mühendis nazlı cerit'nın projelendirdiği eser kazandı. Finansal nedenlerden dolayı yapımı birkaç defa durdurulan anıtın 15 Mart 1958 tarihinde sadece gövde kısmı tamamlanabildi. Bu arada Milliyet gazetesi tarafından ülke genelinde bağış kampanyası düzenlendi. Resmi açılışı 21 Ağustos 1960 tarihinde yapılan anıtın altında Savaş Eserleri Müzesi, yanında Mehmetçik Anıtı ve Türk Şehitliği bulunmaktadır.

Üzerinde 25x25 m kaide yer alan 4 ayak üzerine oturtulmuş olan yapının yüksekliği 41,7 m'dir

Selamlar

hAyAti

Merhaba,
Tabiki çanakkale geçilmez, zaten bunu anlayan çok. Bu açıklamalarınızlada anlamayan kalmayacak. Anıtın fotoğrafına gelince insanlarla birlikte güzel bir kompozüsyon olmuş.
Elinize sağlık.
Ugur

Merhaba Mustafa Bey,
Muhteşem abideyi, anlamına uygun bir şekilde
sunduğunuz için kutlarım. Harika bir çekim.
Sevgiler, saygılar.
Dr.Seyfettin Güner

Merhaba Mustafa Bey,
Fotoğraf için yorum yapmayacağım.
Görüntü ve açıklamalarla bu sitede yapılabilecek en güzel tanıtım.Kutlarım.

( 1950 'li yıllarda , bu anıtın yapımı için açılan kampanyaya ilkokul sıralarında katıldığımı anımsıyorum)
Selamlar.
Şeref

Merhaba Mustafà, splendid monument well ripresed, great note, very well done, ciao Silvio

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  • chrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3715 W: 216 N: 3721] (28231)
  • [2007-09-01 23:49]

Merhaba Mustafa

Good note. I've read also that both the Turks & Aussies had a lot of mutual respect for each other, as fighters in WWI. So much so that I think 'Ataturk' even claimed the fallen Aussies, as Turkeys sons, too! An impressive war memorial, graphically illustrated against the sky. Tfs!

SElamlar Mustafa bey....
Heybetli bir kare...
Bu konuyu gösterebilecek en heybetli bakış açısından yakalamışsınız...
Tebrikler

Merhaba myfriend,

Another great job!
Selamlar

:) tomorrow

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  • Tomek Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1193 W: 39 N: 2126] (12524)
  • [2007-09-02 5:00]

Merhaba Mustafa:)))
Great note and presentation - may be sun wasn't gave you good light but is nice and monumental, very worth it to see:)))
TFS - Tom
:) later

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  • basir Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 439 W: 6 N: 187] (1475)
  • [2007-09-02 11:33]

Rahleyle abidenin kadrajdaki konumlandırılmasıyla, Çanakkale'nin geçilememesindeki hikmetlerden birini vurgulamışsınız.
Elinize emeğinize sağlık.
Selamlar,Saygılar.

Cumhur..

Thanks for showing us this gigantic monument and providing that recounting of the history involved with it. Well done.

Reid

Selamlar Mustafa Bey.
Böyle anlamlı çalışmalarla bizim için en değerli hazinelerimizi, tarihimizi hem bize hemde buradaki yabancılara sunmanız çok çok güzel.. Ellerinize sağlık

evet muthis bir kare . tarih ibret almistir umarim

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